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American surgeons remove massive tumor from Mexican boy ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) - Surgeons in New Mexico have removed a rare, football-sized tumor from the neck and upper body of a Mexican boy, capping a two-year charitable effort to get the disfigured child U.S. medical attention, a church official said ...
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Study will test survivors' blood to treat Ebola A coalition of companies and aid groups announced plans Tuesday to test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat new victims of the disease in West Africa. Plasma from survivors contains antibodies, substances the immune ...
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Bases Covered: US and Africa Need Ebola-Ready Hospitals, Experts Say The United States must establish a network of Ebola-qualified hospitals both at home and in the West African countries fighting the growing epidemic, experts said Tuesday. They said the U.S. is in danger so long as the epidemic continues in Liberia, Sierra ...
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AHA: Screening or Treating to Goal Equally Effective Meeting Coverage. AHA: Screening or Treating to Goal Equally Effective. Published: Nov 18, 2014. By Ed Susman , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...
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Cured in Liberia, man tests positive for Ebola in Delhi NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old Indian who was treated and cured of Ebola virus disease in Liberia has been quarantined at the Delhi airport's health facility after having tested positive twice. Although his blood samples were repeatedly found free of the disease, ...
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10 Million Child Deaths Attributed to a Lack of Toilets In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the 21st century still defecate outdoors, children remain among the most vulnerable to a lack of toilets, contamination from human waste and dirty water. The young are suffering the brunt of a health and ...
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Woman's Remains Tested for Ebola in New York A woman who died of an apparent heart attack in New York City on Tuesday will be tested for the Ebola virus because she had recently been in West Africa, city health officials said. The woman, whose name was not released, returned to the United States 18 ...
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, second death in two days CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman died on Tuesday of H5N1 bird flu after coming into contact with infected birds, the second death from the disease in two days and the third in the country this year, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported. The 30-year-old ...
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India Isolates Ebola Survivor At an Airport NEW DELHI — A 26-year-old Indian man who recovered from Ebola was being held at a quarantine facility at the New Delhi airport as a cautionary measure after his semen tested positive for the virus, health officials announced Tuesday. When he arrived at ...
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Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola HAVANA Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease and was being sent to Geneva for treatment, officials said, the first Cuban known to have contracted the potentially deadly haemorrhagic ...
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Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola HAVANA Nov 18 (Reuters) - A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease and will be sent to Geneva for treatment, the official website Cubadebate reported on Tuesday, citing a Health Ministry statement.
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Woman who died in NYC to be tested for Ebola NEW YORK -- The body of a woman who died of an apparent heart attack in Brooklyn Tuesday will be tested for the Ebola virus as a precaution since she was recently in West Africa, city officials said. The New York City Department of Health and Mental ...
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India quarantines man recovering from Ebola NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has quarantined a man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia but continued to show traces of the virus in samples of his semen after arriving in the country, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement that the ...
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Minnesota Health Care Workers To Join Ebola Fight MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As a nurse, Doris Parker says she is used to being exposed to AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, so she's not afraid to return to Liberia to help her native country fight a deadly Ebola outbreak. "I have a strong conviction ...
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Mexican boy has massive tumor removed in US An 11-year-old Mexican boy who had been suffering from a massive tumor and drew international attention after U.S. officials helped him get treatment in New Mexico had the growth removed after a long surgery, a church said Tuesday. In a statement ...
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Instant Index: Are Trans Fats Transforming Your Memory? Index tonight at something that might be in your dinner right now trans fats in a new study out tonight finds that they may damage your memory. Researchers at the University of California San Diego... See More. Index tonight at something that might be in your ...
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Will eating trans fats damage your memory? Trans fats are low-hanging fruit for nutrition researchers because they have no redeeming nutritional qualities and damage our arteries leading to more heart attacks and strokes. In fact, the US Food and Drug Administration moved last year to completely ban ...
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'Vape' chosen as Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year for 2014 LONDON: Vape, a verb meaning to inhale or exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette has been named as the word of the year 2014 by Oxford Dictionaries. The title is usually given to a word whose usage has increased exponentially during the ...
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Endocarditis Cases Drop After Predental Antibiotic Use Falls CHICAGO, IL — In a 5-year study in England, after guidelines stopped recommending prophylactic antibiotics prior to dental surgery to prevent infective endocarditis, the number of expected cases of this potentially fatal condition increased. Presenting this ...
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Cost to treat Ebola in the US: $1.16 million for 2 patients It cost more than $1 million to treat two Ebola patients at the Nebraska Medical Center, said Jeffrey Gold, chancellor of the hospital's academic partner. That's the direct cost of providing the care, Gold said Tuesday during a hearing before the House Energy ...
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India Quarantines Man Cured of Ebola After Semen Samples India quarantined a man cured of Ebola and traveling from Liberia after samples of his semen tested positive for the virus. The 26-year-old man arrived in New Delhi on Nov. 10 with a certificate of medical clearance from the Liberian health ministry that he was ...
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West Africa nowhere near end of Ebola crisis: Obama WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday that West Africa was still "nowhere near out of the woods" in its fight against Ebola. Obama spoke Tuesday at the White House while meeting with his national security and public health teams ...
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Woman undergoing Ebola monitoring dies of apparent heart attack in Brooklyn ... A woman undergoing Ebola monitoring after returning from West Africa died of an apparent heart attack in a Brooklyn hair salon Tuesday, authorities said. First responders in haz-mat gear descended on African Queen Hair Braiding on Belmont Ave. in ...
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Charlize Theron is professional chic in dress pants and pumps as she promotes ... She founded a charitable organization devoted to ending HIV/AIDS in Africa and serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. So Charlize Theron certainly meant business as she attended an AIDS conference at the University of California in Los Angeles ...
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Major Brain Structure Involved In Visual Processes Rediscovered After Century "This series of images shows drawings of brain connections that the researchers found in the various atlases they studied. Heinrich Obersteiner's 1888 schematic, Sir Edward Schaefer's 1893 woodblock carving, and Gray's 1918 illustration all show the ...
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Cleveland Clinic performs second face transplant In this Sept. 2014 photo released Tuesday by the Cleveland Clinic, doctors work during transplant surgery to replace nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident. It was the second face transplant performed at the hospital ...
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Man gets near-total face transplant Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident. Loading… Post to Facebook. Man gets near-total face transplant Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have replaced nearly the ...
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Bedbugs bite can cause Chagas disease, a new study reveals 3 A new study reveals that bedbugs bite can cause Chagas disease. Bedbugs which can be found in beds and upholstered furniture at home serves as home for bedbugs who happen to carry Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes the Chagas disease.
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Act now if you're prediabetic to prevent diabetes Ricardo Banderas, 66, of Miami always considered himself healthy. He didn't have a weight problem, worked out a couple of times a month, and regularly enjoyed his bread, rice and potatoes. Then after a routine physical a couple of years ago, he learned he ...
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Surgeons Perform Second Near–Total Face Transplant Cleveland, OH - It took more than 24 hrs, in the o–r, about a dozen primary surgeons and twice that many support staff for the Cleveland Clinic to give a second patient, a second face. Doctor Frank Papay says this was even more extensive than their first ...
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Low-Calorie Diets May Delay Ageing Low-Calorie Diets May Delay Ageing Can eating a calorie-restricting diet be the answer to most of our health issues? According to some of the recent studies, diets with fewer calories have proven to be beneficial in lowering the risks of heart diseases, ...
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Sierra Leone trading hub Ebola-free but still suffering Kenema (AFP) -- There is little to celebrate in the tribal chiefdoms of eastern Sierra Leone, where the retreat of the Ebola virus is mitigated by grinding poverty worsened by draconian quarantine restrictions. In Kenema, a diamond exporting hub and the heart ...
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Germ-killer found in soap may cause liver damage A chemical found in most antibacterial soaps may be fighting off germs at the cost of causing liver damage, according to a report. New research linked the chemical 'triclosan' to liver damage and tumors in mice, the Independent reports. However, it wasn't ...
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Global AIDS fight at pivotal point THE world has a "small window of opportunity" to break the AIDS epidemic for good, the United Nations AIDS programme (UNAIDS) said on Tuesday. In a report released ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, UNAIDS said the global AIDS epidemic ...
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Cleveland Clinic Doctors Complete Near-Total Face Transplant CLEVELAND - CBS NEWS - Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident, the hospital announced Tuesday. The operation took place in late September and was only the ...
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Working Night Shift Slows Metabolism, Study Suggests TUESDAY, Nov. 18, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Working by night and sleeping by day may slow down the body's metabolism, a small study suggests. Researchers found that when they put 14 volunteers on a schedule that simulated night-shift work, it quickly ...
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Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, second death in two days CAIRO Nov 19 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman died on Tuesday of H5N1 bird flu after coming into contact with infected birds, the second death from the disease in two days and the third death in the country this year, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported.
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Oxford Dictionary's word of the year is 'vape' The last word on words has spoken. Oxford Dictionaries chose "vape" as the word of the year.It was selected over cringe worthier choices such as "slacktivism" or "bae" — the latter a term of endearment that was a top contender for censorship in Time ...
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Alternative to statins to help heart patients In the first discovery since statins have been regularly used to lower cholesterol, a large study - in which doctors and heart patients in Singapore participated - showed that a similar type of drug can protect people from heart attacks and strokes. The benefits of ...
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Man returning from Liberia tests positive for Ebola, kept under isolation In the first case of Ebola in the country, an Indian national returning from Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus and has been quarantined at a special facility at Delhi airport. The Health Ministry said the 26-year-old man, who reached here on ...
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No sugar tonight? Yes, please A Tuscan Salad with roasted baby gold beets, grapefruit supremes, crumbled Chevre and raspberry vinegar and avocado oil Continued on Page 18 was served at the No Sugar Tonight dinner. Photograph by: Bridges photo by Michelle Berg , The Starphoenix.
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| The Marfan Foundation Comments on Study that Shows Losartan to be Effective ... People with Marfan syndrome now have expanded therapeutic options for slowing the rate of aortic enlargement, the life-threatening aspect of Marfan syndrome. In the Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) clinical trial of 608 Marfan syndrome patients between the ...
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Junk food diet leads to memory loss TOO much junk food can destroy the ... It found that a diet packed with high-fat cakes, pastries, chips and fast foods has a massive impact on the mind. Otherwise healthy young and middle-aged men were worst affected, the research found. Dangerous trans fats are known to raise the risk of ...
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Merck IMPROVEs-IT Causing These Biotechs' Stock Prices to Improve Too Pop quiz: Which one of these drug companies released major positive clinical trial data yesterday? Company. Intraday Increase Monday from Friday's Close. Merck. 1.4%. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. 3.3%. Esperion Therapeutics. 15.4%. Source: Yahoo!
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2 Your Health: premature birth rate increase in Alaska Alaska's preterm birth rate has increased slightly, to 10.1 percent of the state's 11,000 births. March of Dimes is focused on preventing preterm births to give babies a healthier start to life. More from KTUU. Tragic death, friends of Iditarod musher, search for ...
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This Common Antibacterial May Harm Your Liver This Common Antibacterial May Harm Your Liver Triclosan, a widely used antibacterial found in soaps, shampoos and toothpastes has now been found to be detrimental to human health. According to a recent study published in the journal of Proceedings of ...
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Some Fats Might Harm Your Memory Nov. 18, 2014 -- Men under 45 years old who eat lots of trans fats may be hurting their memory, according to a new study released Tuesday. Researchers at UC San Francisco followed 1,000 healthy men who ate various amounts of trans fats, and they found ...
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Consumer Watch: High Levels of Inorganic Arsenic Found in Rice Rice comes in lots of varieties -- and it's a common ingredient in many packaged foods. Consumer Reports analyzed Food and Drug Administration data on more than 600 foods that contain rice and found some with worrisome levels of inorganic arsenic.
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Gates Foundation Gives $5.7 Million to Help Develop Ebola Cure Physician demonstrates testing of blood sample at quarantine station for patients with infectious diseases in Berlin Doctor for tropical medicine Florian Steiner demonstrates the testing of a blood sample at the quarantine station for patients with infectious ...
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Remains of NYC woman who died after returning from West Africa test negative ... The 40-year-old, whom authorities have identified as a woman, had returned from West Africa 18 days ago when she reportedly keeled over in her chair on Tuesday inside Amy's Professional African Hair Braiding, a Brooklyn hair salon. (MyFoxNY.com).
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